Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of hibernate, hibernation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete spelling of
hibernate .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word hybernate.
Examples
-
The infection is targeting bats that hybernate during the winter instead migrate.
-
And when you close your laptop, it automatically puts it in hybernate mode, you don't have to shut it down completely especially if you are like me, going back online every 20 minutes.
Mba nu! princesa 2008
-
Since our last visit, many of the tenants have begun to _hybernate_, and tasteful erections have been made for their winter quarters in all parts of the gardens.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 Various
-
In a state of nature they hybernate; but when kept in a room, a favourite resort in cold weather was among the ashes under a fire-grate.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
-
Throughout the winter the creatures hybernate, shutting themselves up by their operculum whilst lying among dead leaves, or having fixed themselves by their glutinous secretion to a wall or tree.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
-
Fremont believed in it, and his plan was to reach it before the dead of winter, and then hybernate upon it.
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters
-
As I say, let me hybernate until the birds of passage come and the young leaves are green in the spring.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891
-
I refer to a habit of some ophidians, in temperate and cold countries, of returning annually to hybernate in the saine den.
-
They are said to hybernate during the season there.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
-
They were somnolent by day, active by night, and did not hybernate in Nepal.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.